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Re: About that little weekend setback…

He Makes Ryan Look Like a Sain — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:37:19 -0000

Rich.....One word.....SSSSSSWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPP!!!!!!

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Dan S, a voter and Cubs Fan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:21:18 -0000

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Re: About that little weekend setback…

Dan S, a voter and Cubs Fan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:12:44 -0000

To Amuzing Myself - Monday, Jun 23, 08 @ 3:21 pm: The W flag has a mate, it's a blue flag with a L on it. Both are part of the history of the ballpark and the manual scoreboard. Thae flags are so the neighborhood would know what the outcome of the game is that day. I could be wrong but I believe this was started by Bill Veeck.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Louis G. Atsaves — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:57:21 -0000

As a Cubs fan, I promise not to laugh!

(Snicker!)

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Super Anon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:05:20 -0000

Just remember kids, arguing on the internet is like the special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.

Go Cubs.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

312 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:35:11 -0000

It's just like high school all over again, the "popular kids' versus the 'wanna be's'. No matter what kind of money, awards, etc.the 'wanna be's' wind up with, they still are.

End of story.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Ghost — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:51:30 -0000

besides, we all know the Rockies are the best team in baseball

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Snidely Whiplash — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:04:54 -0000

Kinda like takin' yer bawl (hehehe) & goin' home, ain't it, sonny?

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Establishment Republican — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:55:30 -0000

I do not know what was said here in 2005, but this Cubs fan wanted the White Sox to win that year, in the playoffs.

It seems to me that White Sox fans are like the kind of radical Palestinians who hate the other team (Israel/Cubs) more than they want to see their own team win.

In any even, the Cubs have proven they are a far superior team than the White Sox over the past two seasons, and the White Sox and their fans do not seem to have the mental make-up to deal with their inferiority issues. Thankfully, Rod Blagojevich has kept out of this.

On a unifying note, at least we all hate the Packers, right?

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Infield flypaper — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:16:57 -0000

Please be gentle with me, I'm not a huge baseball fan, was a casual Cubs fan just because I lived near them, yet never thought of the Sox as anything bad, just felt lucky our city and state had two teams.

What I don't get are southern Illinoisans that prefer a team from another state to two of their own state's teams. I mean, I once lived as close to Indiana as the people in say, Collinsville do to St. Louis, but it never occurred to me to root for a non-Illinois team. Seemed somehow disloyal or unpatriotic.

So regarding the Illinois Card fans, How did it get to be like this?

Is it really just laziness, picking the team that's closest? As I said, I'm only a casual fan and don't follow the game that closely, I'll watch payoffs and series games if the Cubs or Sox are in it but otherwise nothing. Was there something in the Card's past that endears them to Southern Illinoisans so much more?

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Anonymous45 — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:08:23 -0000

ok rich, i luv Ozzie, cuz he's so goofy...but the Sox play in a concrete pit on the sout' side...could never ever compare to Wrigley, even when the Cubs lose... :)

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Eurepedes Pantsoff — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:58:20 -0000

I think the diatribes from the 'Siders on this blog are typical of Fans locked in a Broom Closet for a weekend.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Bud Man — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:44:19 -0000

I don't hate the Sox. I luv Ozzie, his pitchers and most of all, their doting fans who can't understand why the Cubs are loved and the Sox, well, are the Sox. Can you say Sweep?

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Rich Miller — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:39:43 -0000

I again refer you back to 2005. For instance, this was posted just after the Sox clinched, or this one posted after I got tix during the playoffs,

There's more, but you get the idea.

Stop projecting, Doc. It's unbecoming.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Eddy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:33:36 -0000

This weekend was almost as good as, well, you know what I mean. Boom Shaka Laka!!! Go Cubs, Go Obama

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i'm sure it's been said, but — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:25:55 -0000

You ACTUALLY mean the Sox, don't you? Oh, yeah, Ozzie ball.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

The Doc — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:23:10 -0000

Tell me with a straight face that Sox fans aren't bitter and envious of the both local and national attention the Cubs enjoy. Certainly more so than the inverse, the 2005 season aside. Sox fans spew venom when referring to the Cubs, while Cubs fans by and large (again, with the 2005 season caveat) don't care all that much about the success or lack thereof of the south siders, the crosstown classic notwithstanding.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Rich Miller — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:05:52 -0000

Once again, I would refer you back to 2005 on this very blog. Thanks for stopping by.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

The Doc — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:00:58 -0000

Sox fans calling Cub fans thin-skinned is laughable. There are any number of adjectives that can be attributed to Cubs fans, but thin-skinned is hardly one of them. Sox fans have, again and again, proven that the Cubs' futility is more pleasurable than Sox' success. Rich's comments throughout this string are collectively "Exhibit A". Inferiority complex defined.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Speaking At Will — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:51:21 -0000

As a Cardinal fan, it's funny to watch Sox vs. Cub fan go at it.

Mean while back at the ranch, seventeen pennants (most in the senior circuit), ten World Championships, nine Division Titles and thirty-seven Hall of Famers.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Leigh — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:46:59 -0000

I have a theory about the rats. I think the Cubs released them on Contraress (sorry for the spelling) during the fourth inning of Saturday's game. It explains everything. I would take the Sox long term over Cubs (Completely Useless By September) any day.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Rich Miller — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:44:34 -0000

Paul, Steve is dead.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Amuzing Myself — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:40:38 -0000

Ta Da:

Of course, the only response from a Cubs fan is to say that Cards fans are horrible. Nice. No depth. No reason. No support for the claim. Just meaningless spite. Typical. I love it. Best part, by doing it, you somehow think it makes you look superior. Hilarious.

Re: About that little weekend setback…

Paul Richardson — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:40:11 -0000

Wasn't Steve Goodman one of John Prine's singing/songwriting buddies? Rich, shouldn't that be enough to have some sympathy for the Northsiders?

Re: About that little weekend setback…

This guy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:34:56 -0000

Some of the most clever, insightful wit is born from the comparing/contrasting of groups of grown men who are paid millions to play a child's game.

Only in America, baby, and that's all right with me. :)